Yes, I think I have it. Clique Space is a specification for a nervous system.
A Clique Space can connect, aggregate, and co-ordinate the activity state of any device that can connect to one. In this sense, it surely acts as a nervous system.
Subsequent to my coining the name "Clique Space", I discovered firstly (I've possibly been reminded) that Cliques are a term in graph theory and secondly, the actual name is used in research based on neurological behaviour.
I don't know what all these coincidences may mean to my patent or trademark.
We'll see...
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Clique Space(TM) and a sustainable future.
Okay, a rant about how I believe Clique Space would help humanity in some important areas of social decay/crisis/whatever else might pique the reader's interest...
Firstly, without a doubt, I believe this Clique Space concept will help society lift non-metropolitan communities out of poverty. Clique Space was born of my frustrations at the pig-headed nature of management practise to physically collocate. There may have been a time when the work that needed to be done required the labour resources to come together to do it, and I wouldn't try to doubt that in many occupations, this is still very much the case. But physical collocation is less of a concern, and more of an appeal to the status-quo in a post-industrial society. The factory floor is an anachronism that clings to work management practises, like a drunkard to a light post.
Clique Space will let a company (with individual consent) coordinate work in a highly flexible way that combines the capabilities of multiple media with role-based and individual behaviour preferences. All of this behaviour is controlled ultimately by the individual who logs on to a Clique Space system through the one or more devices they possess.
A person who has access to a Clique Space, and can connect any media to it can communicate a virtual presence to anyone else so connected. This presents the practicality of virtual offices and workplaces to management in a way so that they receive all the information they may ever need about their labour force extracted and distilled from the noise and distraction of an office or factory floor.
The individual employee doesn't have to travel to an office. The individual needn't have to consider relocation. The individual needn't have to weigh up a life of displacement against one of poverty. The individual is earning the same type of money that their highly skilled city-brethren might have without having to leave their rural or remote home community.
The community benefits because this individual who is earning the same type of money as their city-dwelling colleagues is spending their money in their home community. This money circulates in their home community, and brings prosperity, and a reason for others to stay in the community they have selected as their home.
Hence, Clique Space would provide a way for rural and remote sustainability, and would act as a facility through which members of any community would exercise their discretion when connecting to a global one.
Firstly, without a doubt, I believe this Clique Space concept will help society lift non-metropolitan communities out of poverty. Clique Space was born of my frustrations at the pig-headed nature of management practise to physically collocate. There may have been a time when the work that needed to be done required the labour resources to come together to do it, and I wouldn't try to doubt that in many occupations, this is still very much the case. But physical collocation is less of a concern, and more of an appeal to the status-quo in a post-industrial society. The factory floor is an anachronism that clings to work management practises, like a drunkard to a light post.
Clique Space will let a company (with individual consent) coordinate work in a highly flexible way that combines the capabilities of multiple media with role-based and individual behaviour preferences. All of this behaviour is controlled ultimately by the individual who logs on to a Clique Space system through the one or more devices they possess.
A person who has access to a Clique Space, and can connect any media to it can communicate a virtual presence to anyone else so connected. This presents the practicality of virtual offices and workplaces to management in a way so that they receive all the information they may ever need about their labour force extracted and distilled from the noise and distraction of an office or factory floor.
The individual employee doesn't have to travel to an office. The individual needn't have to consider relocation. The individual needn't have to weigh up a life of displacement against one of poverty. The individual is earning the same type of money that their highly skilled city-brethren might have without having to leave their rural or remote home community.
The community benefits because this individual who is earning the same type of money as their city-dwelling colleagues is spending their money in their home community. This money circulates in their home community, and brings prosperity, and a reason for others to stay in the community they have selected as their home.
Hence, Clique Space would provide a way for rural and remote sustainability, and would act as a facility through which members of any community would exercise their discretion when connecting to a global one.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Mountebanks and their Claques' Cliques.
A book titled Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum has introduced two new words to me: mountebank and claque; the second of these words being merely a coincidental fit with the concept of a Clique. I knew neither of these two words nor their association in Rosenbaum's book before I picked it up and read it.
Saying that, I'm probably a bit, unfortunately, of a claqueless mountebank. I have a few supporters for my idea, but sensing yet no one so bold as to be counted a member of the claque that I lack. Maybe others are waiting for this claque to materialise before they join.
Witnessing the phenomenon of mountebanks and their claques in many of my exchanges on email groups, the concern that I lack one of these appears a considerable obstacle to the promotion of Clique Space(TM). Saying that, I think it is only a concern to me insofar as I currently have less than 11.5 months to garner a well-moneyed claque before the PCT lapses.
In regard to lapsing PCT's, one cannot commit too much emotion to this process; the tax to one's sanity would otherwise be too great. I have done my best, and if no one likes my idea (I accept the possibility that my idea might be crap, but am yet to accept the substance of that possibility itself) I will have to be philosophical about this outcome. The idea that I need to spend 150 thousand dollars to secure national phase patent applications is unattainable by me as an individual. Maybe, also, my idea might be too abstract to be sufficiently enforceable, but I doubt this one currently as I still have not seen another make an adversarial move which might indicate this possibility.
I believe society will embrace Clique Space, or a similar idea that empowers individuals with the facility to control their virtual presence and collect activity logs of their interactions with any other individual over any electronic medium capable of being represented in any number of Clique Spaces. Whether or not society responds to this embracing inevitability in time for me to see a consideration for it will be decided by others.
Saying that, I'm probably a bit, unfortunately, of a claqueless mountebank. I have a few supporters for my idea, but sensing yet no one so bold as to be counted a member of the claque that I lack. Maybe others are waiting for this claque to materialise before they join.
Witnessing the phenomenon of mountebanks and their claques in many of my exchanges on email groups, the concern that I lack one of these appears a considerable obstacle to the promotion of Clique Space(TM). Saying that, I think it is only a concern to me insofar as I currently have less than 11.5 months to garner a well-moneyed claque before the PCT lapses.
In regard to lapsing PCT's, one cannot commit too much emotion to this process; the tax to one's sanity would otherwise be too great. I have done my best, and if no one likes my idea (I accept the possibility that my idea might be crap, but am yet to accept the substance of that possibility itself) I will have to be philosophical about this outcome. The idea that I need to spend 150 thousand dollars to secure national phase patent applications is unattainable by me as an individual. Maybe, also, my idea might be too abstract to be sufficiently enforceable, but I doubt this one currently as I still have not seen another make an adversarial move which might indicate this possibility.
I believe society will embrace Clique Space, or a similar idea that empowers individuals with the facility to control their virtual presence and collect activity logs of their interactions with any other individual over any electronic medium capable of being represented in any number of Clique Spaces. Whether or not society responds to this embracing inevitability in time for me to see a consideration for it will be decided by others.
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